• Buupass

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2023

  BuuPass operates a B2B2C full‑stack marketplace that connects transport companies with online ticketing platforms to digitize long‑distance transport in Africa. The company is focused on capturing a share of the estimated $100 billion long‑distance transport market and aims to scale toward unicorn status. BuuPass has sold over 16 million travel tickets and generated more than $100 million in GMV, with a presence across East and Southern Africa and routes in over 15 countries. The business plans to use outside investment to expand its reach and enhance its technology and product offering. The recent backing from Tim Draper is expected to provide strategic guidance and access to a global network to accelerate growth. BuuPass is headquartered in Nairobi. BuuPass is a B2B2C full‑stack marketplace that provides a bus management system (BMS) to digitize operators’ inventory, sales and operations while connecting them to a consumer-facing booking marketplace across web, app and USSD. Its BMS includes a point-of-sale solution and a parcel management module to help operators reduce cash leakages, manage fleets and draw operational insights. The platform also supports flight and train ticketing and has a partnership history with Safaricom to facilitate Kenya Railways bookings. BuuPass processes about 12,000 transactions per day, has recorded over 9 million ticket sales to date, and reported gross merchandise value slightly over $30 million in 2022. It supports a fleet of roughly 1,200 vehicles from more than 25 bus companies, including Easy Coach. The company plans to scale first in Kenya and Uganda and ultimately become a pan‑African infrastructure provider for long‑distance transportation.

• leap.club

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2022

  Leap.club is a professional network for women that members use to expand their network, make career moves, scope partnerships, build an audience and find community. Founded in May 2020 by former senior Zomato executives Ragini Das and Anand Sinha, the startup has scaled to 10,000+ paying members across 2,000+ companies, 200+ cities and 15 countries. Its membership includes women from companies such as Nykaa, Meta, Amazon, Sequoia Capital and Google, as well as founders, professionals, freelancers and women on a break. The company plans to launch a talent solutions platform for women early next year and has already signed 50 large enterprises and around 100 start-ups for that launch. Leap.club says it is a revenue-first company and will use new capital to grow from 10,000 paying members to 100,000 and to reach Rs. 100 crores in revenue within the next 24–36 months. The startup is backed by investors including Whiteboard Capital, Titan Capital, Artha India Ventures and prominent angels such as Kunal Shah, Amrish Rau & Sweta Rau and Deepak Abbot. Leap.Club is a private professional network for women based in Bengaluru, founded in December 2019 by former Zomato executives Ragini Das and Anand Sinha. The platform offers paid memberships for women professionals and aims to provide better networking opportunities compared with existing professional social networks such as LinkedIn. Its membership includes growth tools such as executive coaching, a mental-wellness focus, and masterclasses. Leap.Club emphasizes tailored professional-growth services to cut through the clutter of broader networks. The company recently secured an undisclosed funding amount from Titan Capital, supporting its membership-led model. leap.club is a Gurugram-based, community-led professional network for women aimed at increasing women in leadership. Launched in May 2020 by former Zomato executives Ragini Das and Anand Sinha, the platform offers a paid membership designed to help women progress into senior roles. Membership benefits include executive coaching, mental-wellness support, upskilling tools, and curated networking. The startup reports 4,000+ women on its waitlist and has onboarded founding members in Delhi NCR from companies such as TikTok, EY, NDTV, Group M, Invest India and Google. Its stated mission is to create a private network focused on professional development and future goals to close the leadership gap. The company raised $340,000 in a Pre-Seed round to support these efforts.

• Leverage Edu

  Participated · Series B · Mar 2022

  Founded in 2017 by Akshay Chaturvedi, Leverage Edu helps students secure overseas admissions and provides related services such as education financing, visa assistance, and test preparation. The startup has expanded its presence across major study-abroad destinations including the UK, the US, Canada, and Australia. In FY26 the company reported revenue of Rs 375 crore, a 112% year-on-year increase from Rs 173 crore, and said it had turned EBITDA-positive. Leverage Edu claims a global customer base of over 175,000 users. The company plans to use fresh capital to accelerate international expansion and to grow its financial services and AI-led counselling and admissions offerings. It has signalled ambitions for a future IPO targeting a Rs 2,000–3,000 crore public issue.

• Agnikul

  Participated · Series A · Mar 2020

  AgniKul Cosmos is a space-tech startup led by CEO and co-founder Srinath Ravichandran. The company was publicly highlighted when it secured a ₹25 crore equity investment from TIDCO under the TIDCO Startup Investment Policy 2025. The investment is presented as part of Tamil Nadu’s initiative to support deep-tech and advanced manufacturing startups through a newly structured venture investment framework. AgniKul’s leadership has engaged directly with state officials, and the company framed the funding as an endorsement of Tamil Nadu’s intent to build a technology hub. Beyond the equity commitment, the article does not disclose additional financial metrics, specific products, or revenue figures.

• Coutloot

  Participated · Series A · Apr 2018

  Coutloot operates a social commerce marketplace where buyers and sellers can bargain while shopping, with sellers listing unbranded local-market products across fashion, electronics, home decor, sports and other boxed categories. The company targets rising consumption from tier‑2 and tier‑3 India and aims to converge online and offline retail, serving a market segment that makes up roughly 75% of India’s retail sector. Coutloot says it grew 11x during the pandemic and has delivered a compound annual growth rate of 300% over the past three years, and is looking to hit a platform GMV of Rs 1,000 crore in 2022. The startup plans product and service expansions including working-capital solutions for retailers, video-stories commerce features, and scaling its B2B supply chain. It also intends to increase hiring across technology, marketing and leadership roles to support growth. Founded in 2016, the company describes its ambition as building a Taobao‑like conversational social commerce experience for India’s local languages and markets. CoutLoot began as a seller-focused fashion service in Mumbai and has evolved into a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) platform for labels and users to list and sell clothing. The company operates an app that has been downloaded over 500,000 times and now services 14 cities after expanding from a one-city presence. CoutLoot runs a 'Celebrity Closet' with exclusive listings from TV personalities including Karishma Tanna, Aditi Bhatia, Niti Taylor and Aarti Chabbria. Management says it will pursue aggressive geographic expansion and diversify into other categories within the C2C model. The company is also piloting offline 'pop up shop' stores to complement its online business. CoutLoot positions itself as a technology-driven re-commerce marketplace focused on a customer-centric experience.

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